Agency · Specialist team
Most agencies ranking for base44 are generalists offering 12 platforms with a 1,000-developer offshore bench. We are a small team of senior engineers who only ship base44. Fixed-price scopes, named engineers, no account-manager layer. The engineer who scopes the work ships the work — and signs the report at the end.
Agency comparison
The base44 agency SERP is dominated by generalist firms — Bacancy (1,000+ devs, 12 platforms, $22/hour), Concettolabs (16+ years, dozens of stacks), Nimap (3 continents, 328 employees). They are competent. They are also wrong for most base44-specific work.
| Generalist agency | Base44Devs | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform focus | 12+ platforms (Bubble, Webflow, base44, etc.) | base44 only |
| Pricing | Hourly ($22-$60/hr) or vague monthly | Fixed-scope, published |
| Engineer assignment | Account manager + rotating bench | Named engineer end-to-end |
| Offshore subcontracting | Common, often undisclosed | Never undisclosed |
| Deliverable | Code in workspace + verbal hand-off | Code + written summary + regression plan |
| Money-back on failed sprint | No | Yes, on bug-fix sprints |
What separates us
01
We do not ship Bubble. We do not ship Webflow. We do not ship Salesforce. Every engineering hour goes into base44 — which means every documented platform behaviour, every edge case in the AI agent, every change after a Wix-era platform update is in our internal playbook before it hits your workspace.
02
Generalist agencies bill an account manager who relays your message to the engineer who relays an answer back. We skip the layer. The engineer who scopes the work is the engineer who ships it and the engineer who answers your follow-up question 14 days later.
03
If a $1,500 bug-fix sprint cannot resolve your issue — typically because the root cause is a platform-side bug we cannot work around — we deliver the diagnostic and refund the sprint fee. No agency we have benchmarked offers this clause.
04
Every audit, sprint, build, and migration closes with a written summary: changes, rationale, regression plan, follow-up watch items. So when base44 ships a breaking change six months later, you have a paper trail — not a Slack thread that nobody can find.
05
We are not a base44 reseller. We are not paid by base44. If the right answer for your business is a migration off the platform, that is what the audit will recommend. Most agencies that show up for "base44 agency" have an incentive to keep you on platform — we do not.
What you get
TIER
$497
USD · Fixed-price · One engagement
One business day production-readiness audit. Architecture, security, performance, and SEO.
Scope
TIER · RECOMMENDED
$4,500
USD · Fixed-price · One engagement
Two-week MVP build for founders and product teams. Auth, payments, SEO baked in.
Scope
TIER
$6,000
USD · Fixed-price · One engagement
Migrate off base44 to Next.js + Supabase, Vercel, or self-hosted. Small-app tier.
Scope
How it works
Most generalist agencies start with a two-week discovery phase before a line of code gets written. We compress that to three days for fix engagements and one week for builds. The pipeline below is what every client experiences.
Step 01
Confirm scope, urgency, and engagement tier. Disqualify ourselves if the work is a wrong fit.
Step 02
Written scope, named engineer, fixed price, deliverables, timeline. Inside two business hours of the call.
Step 03
Read-only collaborator access. Reproduction inside the first hour. Written diagnostic report inside one business day.
Step 04
Fix shipped within 48-72 hours. Daily status updates. Written hand-off doc with regression watch items.
QUERIES
Technically yes — we are a small team of senior engineers shipping base44 work on retainer and fixed-scope. But we deliberately do not behave like a typical agency. No 1,000-developer bench, no offshore subcontracting, no hourly meter, no "account manager" layer between you and the engineer. The engineer who scopes the work ships the work.
Bacancy and Concettolabs are competent generalist agencies that offer base44 alongside Bubble, Webflow, FlutterFlow, Salesforce, and a dozen other stacks. If your project mixes base44 with three other technologies, they are a reasonable choice. If your project is base44-specific — fixing, building, or migrating — a specialist team has more reps on the platform and ships faster.
Fixed-price scopes wherever the work is well-defined. $497 audits, $1,500 sprints, $3,000 multi-bug rescues, $4,500-$15,000 builds, $6,000-$25,000+ migrations. Larger engagements include weekly retainer pricing once scoped. We publish prices because hourly billing creates the wrong incentives.
Yes, after a successful first engagement. We do not lead with retainer because the right answer for most teams is a fixed-scope sprint or build, not an open-ended monthly contract. Retainers are typically $4,000-$8,000/month depending on volume.
No. Every engineer on your engagement is named, bylined, and visible in the engagement letter. We do not subcontract to undisclosed offshore teams. If we ever bring in a specialist for a niche task, we name them in writing first.
A free 15-minute call to confirm scope, then either a $497 audit (for fix/migration work) or a paid scoping engagement (for builds over $9,000). Audit reports and scoping deliverables are credited toward the eventual engagement. No surprise invoices.
What an agency engagement looks like in practice
"Agency engagement" sounds vague because most agencies make it vague on purpose. Below are the three shapes our work actually takes. Names redacted at client request.
Shape 01 · Single engagement
Most common. Buyer has one specific bug or production-readiness concern. Audit lands in one business day; sprint ships the fix in 48-72 hours. Total cost $1,997 (audit fee credited toward the sprint), total elapsed time under one week.
Shape 02 · Build engagement
Buyer has a defined scope (MVP, internal tool, marketplace). Two-week to two-month engagement with weekly written progress notes, named engineer end-to-end, and a written hand-off doc. No hourly billing, no scope creep.
Shape 03 · Retainer
For ongoing fixes, performance work, and platform-update coverage. Volume-based pricing — you buy a block of senior engineering hours per month with rollover. Available only after a successful first engagement so we both know the fit.
NEXT STEP
Order a $497 audit or book a free 15-minute call. Same engineer scopes the work and ships it.